The study presents a performance evaluation model that does not only concentrates on financial performance, but also on company size, macro -economic, and industry related factors as well. The developed model considers four construction contacting categories: (1) general building; (2) heavy; (3) special trade; and (4) real estate. It also considers the effect of company size, along with economi...

Positek Limited L6 The Link Andoversford Industrial Estate Andoversford Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL54 4LB England Telephone (44) (0)1242 820027 Fax: (44) (0)1242 820615 Abstract With the increasing sophistication of electronic controls for mechanical systems to provide both accuracy and flexibility of control, there is more demand for durable, accurate and easy to use displacement sensors. Cu...

Implementing a Participatory Model of Micro Health Insurance among Rural Poor with Evidence from Nepal David M. Dror, Atanu Majumdar, Pradeep Panda, Denny John and Ruth Koren Micro Insurance Academy, 52B Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase-3, New Delhi 110020, India. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute of Health Policy and Management, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: da...

As a result of the lorry explosion on the Fengate Industrial Estate, Peterborough on 22nd March 1989, 82 casualties arrived at Peterborough District Hospital. Despite the fact that casualties arrived at the A&E Department in large numbers before the Major Accident Plan could be implemented, all of the casualties had been assessed and either admitted or sent home within 3 h of the explosion. In ...

Rohit Shankar , Victor Oluwaseyi Olotu *, Nicholas Cole , Heather Sullivan , Caryn Jory c Neuropsychiatry, Epilepsy and Memory Service, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Chy Govenek, Threemilestone Industrial Estate, Threemilestone, Truro, Cornwall TR4 9LD, United Kingdom Care of the Elderly Department, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, Treliske, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3LJ, United Kingdo...

Location selection is an essential decision problem for many industrial domains such as hotel, tourism site, energy, school, warehouse, factory, stores, retails and estate. This paper proposes the Primitive Cognitive Network Process (P-CNP) for the location selection problem considering multiple criteria. An illustrated example of hospital site selection demonstrates the usability of the propos...

The Russian writer and physician Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) draws on his clinical experience in many of his stories. One of his later masterpieces entitled A Case History (1898) depicts a physician's visit to a small industrial community where a wealthy young woman is suffering from diffuse symptoms. The physician, Dr Koryolov, meets the patient and makes a diagnosis. While staying on the estate...

†Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bath University, Bath BA2 7AY, UK ‡Faculty 5, Department of Biomimetics/Biological Materials, Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Sciences, Neustadtswall 30, D-28199 Bremen, Germany §Bits From Bytes Ltd., Unit 17 Hither Green Industrial Estate, Clevedon, North Somerset BS21 6XU, UK ¶Diamond Age Solutions Ltd., 72 Warner Park Avenue, Laingholm, Waitake...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are reshaping many industries, often by reshaping how information is shared. Informationintensive industries, by their nature, show the greatest impacts due to ICTs that enable information sharing and the bypassing of traditional information intermediaries. However, while the effects and uses of ICT are often associated with organizations (and i...